All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club

[MARK KUHN] Well, I'd like to think it's a little piece of heaven.

[KOHLSDORF] Along a quiet country gravel road nestled within rolling farmland sits the All Iowa Lawn Tennis Club.

[MARK KUHN] It's a grass tennis court made in replica of Wimbledon Center Court. And I've been very fortunate, I've been to Wimbledon and worked with the ground staff. So we picked up many of the techniques that they use there and brought them back to Iowa. It took a year and a half to build. It was built over the summers of 2002 and 2003.

[KOHLSDORF] In 2016, the Kuhn’s lost their son, Alex, unexpectedly. To honor his memory, the family dedicated the court as the Alex J. Kuhn Court of Dreams and launched an annual Youth Tennis Invitational.

[MARK KUHN] It's just been a great family legacy that now bears Alex's name, and so it's just something that we want to keep going here.

[MARK KUHN] It's easier on your body. You know, it's softer. You can play on it longer. It doesn't reflect the sun's heat back at you. It absorbs that in the grass. And it's just all the bad hops and everything to expect. But that's just part of playing on grass and that's what makes it fun.

[MICHAEL SHUM] She played tennis growing up and into college, and we had seen just that this was a playable public grass court that we could reserve, and it looked incredible. We looked up the story about Mark and everything about it and it just seemed amazing.

[DORA TZENG] It's really different from hard courts, which is what I played on exclusively growing up. But it's fun. I feel like there's a lot more variety.

[MARK KUHN] Our guests come from all over. This year we've had, so far we had people from 17 states.

[KOHLSDORF] Travelers can reserve a slice of Wimbledon worthy court time, Memorial Day weekend through mid September, and even settle in for the night at the charming farmhouse just steps away.

[MARK KUHN] Our goal is to sustain it, and that's why that is now a vacation rental and people now pay to play on the court.

[MICHAEL SHUM] I just think it's a really special story. You know, for somebody to really fall in love with the game, to fall in love with the place, so much to commit to, you know, breeding your own grass and really building this in Iowa of all places. I just think it's a really special location and worth seeing.

[MARK KUHN] There's a lot of reasons we kind of want to keep this going. It's just an Iowa treasure.